LIV KRISTINE Releases Music Video For ‘River Of Diamonds’ Title Track Feat. MOONSPELL’s Fernando Ribeiro
May 11th, 2023
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Stavanger, Norway-born vocalist Liv Kristine, currently of German / Norwegian folk metal band Midnattsol and formerly of Theatre Of Tragedy and Leaves’ Eyes, has filmed a music video for the title track of her latest album River Of Diamonds. Featuring guest vocals from Moonspell frontman Fernando Ribeiro, the clip can be viewed below.
Regarding the collaboration and video, Liv Kristine said: “I’ve know Fernando since touring together in 1996. Through the years he’s been a great, supportive friend and inspiration to me. It’s an honour having Fernando as my duet partner on ‘River Of Diamonds’. Moreover, for the making of this clip, he had some brilliant ideas which I completed with the superb help from my dear husband, Michael. The clip was filmed in Portugal and Switzerland and edited in Cyprus by our creative friend Andreas / Dark Star Vid. Prod.”
Liv Kristine issued sixth solo full-length studio album River Of Diamonds on April 21st, 2023 through Metalville Records.
All of the tracks on River Of Diamonds were composed by Kristine’s long-time friend and former Theatre Of Tragedy guitarist Tommy Olson at his Black Rider Records studio in Tau, near Liv Kristine’s birthplace of Stavanger in Norway.
Compositions were created out of the studio in 2021 and 2022, Olsson composing and handling pre-mixing duties, Kristine devising lyrics and melodies, and subsequently mixing and mastering by Eroc.
‘Our Immortal Day’ is a duet with Østen Bergøy, while Moonspell frontman Fernando Ribeiro guests on the title track. Sister and Midnattsol bandmate Carmen Elise Espenæs duets on the track ‘Love Me High’, while Kristine’s husband Michael Espenæs provides vocals to the cover rendition of late Deep Purple keyboardist Jon Lord’s solo track ‘Pictured Within’. Closing out the effort, a cover interpretation of the Cyndi Lauper song ‘True Colours’ was re-recorded by Rocco Cogliati with keyboards and piano.
“Each song follows a path of strong authenticity and unbound creativity, which is my innermost and first criterion since Theatre Of Tragedy (Theatre Of Tragedy, 1995), Deus Ex Machina (solo, 1998) and Lovelorn (Leaves’ Eyes, 2004),” Liv Kristine commented. “The lifeline that flows through all twelve compositions unveils a heart-based personal path, a sense of deeper truth and a soul vision of pure bliss consciousness – an eternal river of diamonds.”
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The track listing is as follows:
01. ‘Our Immortal Day’
02. ‘No Makeup’
03. ‘Maligna’
04. ‘Gravity’
05. ‘In Your Blue Eyes’
06. ‘River Of Diamonds’
07. ‘Pictured Within’
08. ‘Shaolin Me’
09. ‘Love Me High’
10. ‘Serenity’
11. ‘If I Am Dreaming’
12. ‘True Colours’
A music video was filmed for the track ‘In Your Blue Eyes’. In addition, an official lyric video was created for the title track and the song ‘Love Me High’. All three clips can also be viewed below.
Fifth solo studio record Vervain was released in October 2014 via Napalm.
Promotional photograph by M. Rohrbach.
